> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 08:18:48AM +0000, Aditya Sarawgi wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:53:31PM -0800, Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Now bwn(4) is available at the public and waiting test and review. The
> > > status of this driver is *alpha* so could make panics, warnings and
> > > errors. Please let me know if you encounter problems.
> > >
> > > The following NICs all I have are only tested on the little endian 64bit
> > > machine and big endian 32bit machine.
> > >
> > > - Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless
> > > - Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless
> > >
> > > I tested basic RX, TX and WPA association as STA mode and checked it
> > > worked.
> > >
> > > As you might know there are still a lot of TODO in the driver so you
> > > could see some verbose messages during testing so please ignore or let
> > > me know it makes problems.
> > >
> > > == How to build and load ==
> > >
> > > # cd /usr/src/sys
> > > # fetch
http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/bwn_20091222.tar.gz
> > > # tar xzf bwn_20091222.tar.gz
> > > # cd modules/ssb
> > > # make && make install
> > > # cd ../..
> > > # cd modules/bwn
> > > # make && make install
> > > # cd somewhere
> > > # fetch
http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/bwn_ports_20091222.tar.gz
> > > # tar xzf bwn_ports_20091222.tar.gz
> > > # cd sysutils/b43-fwcutter
> > > # make install clean
> > > # cd ../..
> > > # cd net/bwn-firmware-kmod
> > > # make install clean
> > > #
> > > # kldload ssb
> > > # kldload bwn_v4_ucode
> > > # kldload if_bwn
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Weongyo Jeong
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The driver doesn't work with BCM4315, here's what dmesg shows
> >
> > ssb0: <Broadcom BCM4315 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xf4000000-0xf4003fff
> > irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci6
> > bwn0 on ssb0
> > bwn0: unsupported PHY type (5)
> > device_attach: bwn0 attach returned 6
>
> I see that your device has LP-PHY instead of A/B/G/N PHYs so currently
> it's not supported by bwn(4).
>
> AFAIK linux has a weak but working implementation so we could refer to
> other Open Sources.
>
> regards,
> Weongyo Jeong
>
